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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 252913" data-attributes="member: 546">I'm surprised no one mentioned Greyhawk's Pholtus of the Blinding Light as a real world God correlation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Certainly, some fundamentalist sects would see God as this type of divine power.What about the Inquisition or Fear domains? There is a non-magical inquisitor core class in AEG's Swashbuckling Adventures (7th Sea d20) book tyhat is really scary.In all seriousness, I ran a dualistic campaign with two rival gods fighting over the world. One was supposedly good (but had a mostly corrupt priesthood and fanatical Inquisition torturing and burning people at the stake as well as agitating for holy crusades against every nation that did not believe as they did) and a god that was supposedly evil (but was seen as a great liberator, espouser of human nature, and dispeller of lies and hypocrisy by his adherants). Both advocated their own race as superior, and their own religion as being the one true path. Each god could grant any domain it wished, so long as it could be justified by their Holy Scripture. The two then set up their mortal followers to clash against each other to see which way was best, in a contest for the amusement of a distant, uncaring overgod who created them both. Man is but a tool for divine debate as to who's theology/philosophy is better. Anyway, this was quite a popular game world that lasted 5 years.AGAMNON may be right about Ao being the closest interpretation, however. The priests of the Judeo-Christian god do not cast spells, IIRC, but rather beseech God to intervene for miracles to benefit his flock or curse those that stand in their way. So, no spells and no domains would be most accurate and least heretical. however, allowing the priest a chance to receive divine intervention in crisis situations (generally but not always non-magical effects that could be dismissed as luck or natural phenomena) would be appropriate. HarnMaster Religion has a system like this for its priests, with the DC being 17 to get the attention of the priest's god, and the DC being 2 lower to get the attention of a Jesus or Archangel type figure, and 2 lower than that to get the attention of a saint or lesser servitor. There is also a chance for conditions being imposed or retribution (and no intervention) being imposed for angering the entity. The chance of conditions or retribution increase dramatically when calling upon the major and minor servants.</blockquote>

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